A search on one network costs 2 tokens, a written reply 3; asking the Outpost is free. Top-ups from $25 never expire. Billed per venture, cancel any time.
See the full pricingOctolens and Outposts both watch Reddit, X and other networks. They are built for different jobs.
Octolens is a social listening tool. You track keywords for your brand, your competitors and your market, and it sorts the mentions for you. Outposts looks for one thing: people asking for what you sell. It reads the thread, drafts a reply in your voice, and waits. You post it yourself. Outposts never signs in to your accounts.
Octolens' homepage says it monitors Reddit, X and 13 more platforms in one place, with mentions filtered for your brand and competitors. Its pricing page lists email and Slack alerts, an API, webhooks and an MCP server on its plans. It also tracks podcasts, newsletters, news and reviews on its higher plan.
If you need to know what people say about your brand, watch competitors, or send mentions into your team's tools, that is what Octolens is for. Outposts does not try to be a brand monitoring dashboard.
It is built around buying questions. Outposts scores each thread for whether someone is actually asking, then writes a reply of two or three sentences in your voice.
The drafts come with the product. Octolens offers reply drafts as agent skills. You connect Octolens to your own agent app and run a skill such as "Top 5 posts to reply to today". With Outposts the draft is waiting for you in the app.
You stay in control. You read each reply, edit it and post it from your own account. Your edits teach it your voice.
A lower entry price. Solo is $39 a month. Octolens Pro is $159 a month billed annually.
| Outposts | Octolens | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Find people asking for what you sell, draft a reply | Social listening: brand and competitor mentions |
| Reply drafts | In the app, in your voice | Through agent skills you run in your own agent app |
| Posting | You post it yourself. Outposts never signs in to your accounts | Not applicable to monitoring; replies are yours to send |
| Networks | Up to nine, including Reddit and X (7 on Solo, 9 on Pro) | Reddit, X and 13 more platforms, plus podcasts, newsletters, news and web on Scale |
| Alerts and API | Not listed | Email, Slack, API, webhooks and MCP server |
| Entry price | Solo $39/mo ($32.50/mo billed yearly) | Pro $159/mo billed annually |
| Higher plan | Pro $99/mo ($82.50/mo billed yearly) | Scale $499/mo billed annually |
| Free trial | 7 days of Solo, no card. Free Buyer Brief, no account | 7-day free trial, no credit card |
Prices checked 2026-10-15. Plans and prices change; check each site before you buy.
Some teams could run both. Octolens watches the conversation about your brand. Outposts turns the threads where someone is asking into drafts.
No. Octolens is a listening tool with alerts, an API and reporting. Outposts finds people asking for what you sell and drafts the reply. If you need brand monitoring, Octolens fits that job.
Its skills library lists reply drafts, for example "Top 5 posts to reply to today", which you run through an agent app you connect to Octolens. Outposts drafts replies inside the product, in your voice.
Outposts Solo is $39 a month with 1,000 tokens and 7 networks. Pro is $99 a month with 3,000 tokens and 9 networks. A search on one network costs 2 tokens and a written reply costs 3. Octolens Pro is $159 a month billed annually, and Scale is $499 a month billed annually.
No. It finds threads and drafts replies. You post each one from your own account. You can start a 7-day free trial with no card, or run the free Buyer Brief first.
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